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| … 1771 . 1772 . 1773 . 1774 . 1775 . 1776 . 1777 … 1778 1779 1780 -1781- 1782 1783 1784 … 1785 . 1786 . 1787 . 1788 . 1789 . 1790 . 1791 … In poetry: 1778 1779 1780 -1781- 1782 1783 1784 |
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Contents |
Events
- Friedrich Schiller arrested after the first performance of his play, The Robbers
New books
- Anna Barbauld - Hymns in Prose for Children
- Robert Bage - Mount Henneth
- Christoph Friedrich Bretzner - Belmont und Constanze
- William Combe - Letters of an Italian Nun and an English Gentelman
- Benjamin Franklin - A Letter To A Royal Academy
- Charles Johnstone - The Hisotry of John Juniper
- Henry Mackenzie - Julia de Roubignei
- Glocester Ridley - Melanpus
- Anna Seward - Monody on Major Andre
New drama
- Miles Peter Andrews - Dissipation
- Frances Brooke - The Siege of Sinope
- John Delap - The Royal Supplicants
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Iphigenia in Tauris (revised version)
- Thomas Holcroft - Duplicity
- Elizabeth Inchbald – Polygamy
- Robert Jephson - The Count of Narbonne
- Samuel Jackson Pratt - The Fair Circassian
- Friedrich Schiller - Die Räuber (The Robbers)
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- A Trip to Scarborough
- The Critic
Poetry
- William Cowper - Anti-Thelyphthora
- George Crabbe - The Library
- Santa Rita Durão - Caramuru
- Anne Francis - A Poetical Translation of the Song of Solomon
- Philip Freneau - The British Prison-Ship
- William Hayley - The Triumphs of Temper
- George Keate - Works
- Samuel Jackson Pratt - Sympathy
Non-fiction
- Edward Gibbon - Volumes II and III of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Henry Home - Loose Hints Upon Education
- Samuel Johnson
- The Beauties of Johnson
- Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets
- Immanuel Kant - Critique of Pure Reason
- John Moore - A View of Society and Manners in Italy
- John Newton - Cardiphonia
- John Nichols - Biographical Anecdotes of William Hogarth
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Essai sur l'origine des langues
Births
- January 26 - Ludwig Achim von Arnim, poet and novelist (d. 1831)
- January 30 - Adelbert von Chamisso, poet (d. 1838)
- February 26 - Peter Andresen Oelrichs, lexicographer
- March - Józef Zawadzki, publisher (d. 1838)
- March 17 - Ebenezer Elliott, poet (d. 1849)
- May 14 - Friedrich Ludwig Georg von Raumer, historian (d. 1873)
- November 6 - Lucy Aikin, historical writer (d. 1864)
- December 6 - Charlotte von Ahlefeld, novelist (d. 1849)
- December 11 - David Brewster, scientist and writer (d. 1868)
- date unknown - Christian Isobel Johnstone, journalist and novelist (d. 1857)
Deaths
- February 15 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Enlightenment philosopher and dramatist (b. 1729)
- March 17 - Johannes Ewald, dramatist and poet (b. 1743)
- April 4 - Henry Thrale, friend of Samuel Johnson and husband of Hester Thrale (b. c. 1730)
- May 8 - Richard Jago, poet (b. 1715)
- June 24 - Anna Miller, poet and salon hostess (b. 1741)
- November 2 - José Francisco de Isla, satirist (b. 1703)
- November 4 - Johann Nikolaus Götz, poet (b. 1721)
- December 7 - Judith Madan, poet (b. 1702)